E.NOTE:Faithfulness doesn’t involve a portion
of my time.It is about one or two
actions.Faithfulness is a way of
life.

1.Faithfulness allows God to
go into every nook and cranny of our lives.

2.Our whole being is yielded
to His will for our lives.

3.Thoughts, words, and actions
are completely in His control.

4.The closing chapters of
books like Galatians, Ephesians, and Colossians make this point very
emphatically (See Galatians 5:13-6:10).

III.IS IT POSSIBLE TO CEASE
BEING FAITHFUL

A.The warning (Heb.
3:12-14).

Take heed,
brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing
from the living God.But exhort one
another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through
the deceitfulness of sin.For we
are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence
stedfast unto the end.

B.Notable
examples:

1.The one talent man (Matt.
25:24-30).

2.Judas (Acts
1:25).

3.Ananias and Sapphira (Acts
5:1-11).

4.Hymenaeus and Alexander (I
Tim. 1:19-20).

Holding faith,
and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made
shipwreck: of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan,
that they may learn not to blaspheme.

5.Demas (II Tim.
4:10).

6.Diotrephes (III John
9-10).

C.I
Corinthians 10:12

Wherefore let
him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

CONCLUSION

A.Proverbs
20:6

Most men will
proclaim every one his own goodness:but a faithful man who can find?

B.To develop and maintain
faithfulness, we must acquire three things:

1.A
good heart (Ps. 78:37; Prov. 10:8).

a.Free from evil.

b.Free from self-deception.

c.Free from comparisons with others.

d.Abiding love for God.

2.A
burning desire for the Word of God.

a.The Word of God produces faith (Rom. 10:17).

b.The Word effectually works in us (I Thess. 2:13).

3.A diligent exercise of the Word of God in one’s life (James 1:21,
25).